[T_MacThrowFace]

If you ever get diagnosed as having ADHD though, then every doctor will forever pretend that they know for a 100% fact that your ADHD is caused by mutated dopamine receptors, while having done no testing of course; why would they when you have already been diagnosed

[UniverseHacker]

That is pretty silly, and a misunderstanding of the research. All of the mutations in dopamine transport associated with ADHD are pretty weakly associated, and still very common in the non-ADHD population.

[adadadadadad]

You are actually making the case that ADHD doesn't exist or is pretty meaningless.

There is no scientific basis for it, it was a bunch of criteria that were arbitrarily chosen to create a term called "ADHD" so that they can prescribe meds.

You just have to ask the question as to why we can't give meds to everyone when 25% of college students report using them. Why can't we give meds to someone addicted to social media as a fix?

Everything is premised on it being a neurodevelopmental brain defect from birth...so that meds can be effective. But there is no basis for this.

You might as well just give anyone who doesn't get good marks at school or doesn't perform at work meds. In fact people want to do this.

Good read: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2022.81476...